Films and guides

The AI playbook

The films, in order

  1. Film 1 · The voice skill · 52 seconds

    How to make AI write like you: a voice skill built from your own edits

    A typewriter that stamps the same stock phrases shows why two adjectives fail, then five pages of your own writing and every phrase you cross out become a saved voice skill.

  2. Film 2 · Make this a skill · 43 seconds

    Turn a good chat into an AI skill you can reuse

    A job finished in a chat is saved as a skill with one prompt, read with this month’s figures removed, and tested in a new chat from a one-line request.

  3. Film 3 · Hand over your red pen · 52 seconds

    Hand over your red pen: turn your review comments into an AI checklist

    A manager's three repeat comments on every draft become a checklist in his own words, shared as a skill his team runs before he sees their work.

  4. Film 4 · The brand skill · 46 seconds

    Brand guidelines for AI: turn the brand book into decisions

    A brand book lands in an AI tray, turns into a numbered key of exact rules, has its clashes with published work settled once and is saved as a skill for tomorrow’s drafts.

  5. Film 5 · A gap, not a guess · 55 seconds

    A gap, not a guess: how to stop AI inventing facts about your company

    A team stops its AI assistant inventing a customer count by building one sheet of approved facts and a project rule that leaves a [CHECK] gap instead.

  6. Film 6 · Let it interview you, once · 41 seconds

    Write your AI custom instructions by letting it interview you, once

    An assistant that keeps explaining your own job to you is turned round to interview you instead, and the one page it writes is saved in its instructions.

  7. Film 7 · Never correct it twice · 56 seconds

    Never correct it twice: one-line rules for ChatGPT and Claude projects

    A board summary keeps opening with thanks until the assistant writes one rule on one line and it goes into a project’s instructions, where every new chat starts with it.

  8. Film 8 · Put a watch on a web page · 47 seconds

    Put a watch on a web page: monitor changes with a scheduled AI task

    A weekly scheduled task compares a supplier’s public terms page with the wording saved on day one and reports the clause that changed, old and new side by side.

  9. Film 9 · The transcript as a mirror · 48 seconds

    The transcript as a mirror: a prompt for honest feedback on your meetings

    How to turn a meeting transcript into feedback on yourself in Claude or ChatGPT: say which speaker is you, then ask for the questions you ducked, where you changed the subject and who barely spoke, each one quoted.

  10. Film 10 · The map that interviews you · 54 seconds

    How to write AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md: the map that interviews you

    A coding agent builds on code the team retired two years ago, until it maps the repository in plan mode, asks what the code leaves out and keeps the answers in the file it reads before every job.

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